Harvard, Princeton or Yale?

[Anonymous]

Exactly pp. She could have sent her kids to DC publics and personally improved them if she wanted. But, she chose not to.

[Anonymous]

Sending kids to a DC public = personally improving them? Where do you get that equation? It's very hard for a U.S. president's cild to attend a DC public; the security prolem would be a nightmare. Amy Carter was from a different era, before terrorism on U.S. soil and before we had a black president targeted constantly by death threats.

[Anonymous]

How is protecting the kids at a public much different from protecting them at a private? Sure, Sidwell has more grass between the road and the school buildings, but also more bushes to hide in.

[Anonymous]

But getting back to colleges, if the argument is about how they need to attend an isolated, bucolic camps for security reasons, then they should go to UMD over Yale or Harvard.

[Anonymous]

campus, not camps.

[Anonymous]

About security for presidents' children: it's not just the geographical terrain or physical isolation that is key, but whether the school is willing to cooperate with Secret Service. Sidwell is known for being willing to bend over backwards for the kids of prominent people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michelle has said on many occasions that she didn't feel "at home" while she attended Princeton. Doubt if she would want her girls to attend.

Sounds like someone has more than a little resentment towards Princeton going on here.

Both Michelle and her older brother, Craig, attended Princeton, with their parents' encouragement and a healthy dose of financial aid. So did John Rodgers, one of their mentors from Chicago (and Desiree Rogers' ex-husband). I'm sure that none of them felt immediately at home in mid-1980s Princeton, but also expect they'd be delighted if their upper-class, private-school educated progeny attended the university in the future.

[Anonymous]

Well said pp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Michelle has said on many occasions that she didn't feel "at home" while she attended Princeton. Doubt if she would want her girls to attend.

Sounds like someone has more than a little resentment towards Princeton going on here.

Both Michelle and her older brother, Craig, attended Princeton, with their parents' encouragement and a healthy dose of financial aid. So did John Rodgers, one of their mentors from Chicago (and Desiree Rogers' ex-husband). I'm sure that none of them felt immediately at home in mid-1980s Princeton, but also expect they'd be delighted if their upper-class, private-school educated progeny attended the university in the future.

From Michelle's Princeton thesis, by the way, she declined to attend her 25th alumni anniversary:

“My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘Blackness’ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances under which I interact with Whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be Black first and a student second.”


I don't agree with you at all that she would be delighted to send her upper-class, private-school educated daughters to Princeton. They'll likely attend Stanford.

[Anonymous]

Let me get out my violin...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me get out my violin...

...and remove your bow from out your ass.

[Anonymous]

So original pp.

[Anonymous]

This thread is getting more lame all the time.

[Anonymous]

Indeed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

From Michelle's Princeton thesis, by the way, she declined to attend her 25th alumni anniversary:

“My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘Blackness’ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances under which I interact with Whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be Black first and a student second.”


I don't agree with you at all that she would be delighted to send her upper-class, private-school educated daughters to Princeton. They'll likely attend Stanford.

You do realize, don't you, that by the time of her 25th alumni anniversary, Michelle Obama was the First Lady. Perhaps she had just a few other things on her calendar (or didn't want photographers taking pictures of her in a reunion jacket)? The notion that, 25 years later, she harbors an abiding resentment towards the university that she, her brother, and so many of her friends attended is pretty silly.

Even so, great to know that Sasha and Malia already have their Stanford acceptance letters in hand (that's probably another good sign that, even if it wasn't the case in 1985, the Obamas are now pretty comfortable with the privileges bestowed on the upper class).